Officiale Selection

All the screenings are scheduled at h. 04.00 p.m. at “Principe Cinema-Theatre” in Palestrina, Piazzale della Liberazione.

TITLE

DESCRIPTION

SYNOPSIS

DATE OF

SCREENING

ANNA

by DIEGO SCANO and LUCA ZAMBOLIN

Italy, 2013, HD – 16’.00’’

Cast: Lucia Mascino, Marian Stan, Silvio Comis

Anna works as a servant in a hotel. She has trouble relating to people and she is locked in an impenetrable solitude. The sudden attraction to a man operates in her unpredictable emotional mechanisms that will lead her to get involved in the game as she had never done before.

Friday

21

November

2014

L’ATTIMO DI VENTO

It’s the first musical-historic italian short movie and tells about the epic history of Matteo and Teresa, two young lovers obliged by their respective families to live apart, reunited only by the start of the Second World War. A musical epic love story during the Second World War.

Saturday

22

November

2014

BELLA DI NOTTE

(Beauty by night)

by PAOLO ZUCCA

Italy, 2013, HD – 10’.00’’

Animation. Narrative voice by Stefano Accorsi.

Sardinia. In a gloomy village in the mountains, in the early twentieth century, the anthropologist and traveler DH Lawrence investigates the mysterious and legendary of “accabadòra”. His investigation will take him at first to the house of a very kind and hospitable old woman, then to a church which door is oddly barred since long time…

Saturday

22

November

2014

BELLA DI PAPA’

It’s Enrica and Filippo’s wedding day. The man is very very nervous and his best man tries to calm him. Finally the bride arrives, triumphally accompanied by her father But it’s a moment. Enrica changes her mind and runs away, leaving Filippo at the altar, astonished as everybody else. The bride locks herself in the sacristy’s bathroom…

Friday

21

November

2014

CRATTA

by FAUSTO ROMANO

Italy, 2014, 4K – 20’.00’’

Cast: Fausto Romano, Giulia Carpaneto, Cosimo Lupo

In a little village in southern Italy, a church and a cafeteria contend for the destinies of the inhabitants divided between God and Fortune, while the young Paolino desperately looks for raising money for the Patronal celebrations dedicated to the Virgin Mary. When he realizes he can’t, he tries to defecate money… How? By drinking huge quantities of orange juice.

Sunday

23

November

2014

ELECTRIC INDIGO

Sometimes it’s difficult for a girl to face other’s glimpses and be aware of her own identity, mostly when she never knew her mother and her only reference is the love of two heterosexual fathers united by not carnal marriage ties. One day the mother reappears and she wants her daughter to stay with her.

Saturday

22

November

2014

FRATELLI MINORI

On May, 9th 1978 Aldo Moro and Peppino Impastato lost their lives few hours away from each other. The news of Aldo Moro’s death overshadowed the loss of Impastato, but for the three young protagonists, military conscripts engaged in a checkpoint, that death will be the opportunity for a dramatic awareness and for a symbolic rebellion.

Friday

21

November

2014

F*CK THE ZOMBIES!

What would happen if a group of modern boys was attacked by zombies? In the imaginary town of Greenberg, while two boy gangs of the suburbs are about to fight, some living deads arrive. The two gangs find shelter in a school that, at first, seems to be a safe place.

Sunday

23

November

2014

THE FUTURE

by VENETIA TAYLOR

Australia, 2012, HD – 7’.12’’

Cast: Brooke Ellen Louttit, Alex Bryant-Smith, Helen Tonkin

When we are young and in love everything seems to be bright. The same is for a young couple in odor of marriage. Sit around the table of a public place, surrounded by all their dearest friends, the couple express the desire to live “the future” together. A wish that change to reality in that very moment with unpredictable consequences.

Saturday

22

November

2014

I FEEL LOST

The young Javier feels an existential emptiness after having seen the last episode of the television series Lost. Little by little a strange force a strange force pushes him further on a journey of self-discovery, taking advantage of the absence of his housemate. But what starts as a funny and transgressive game could end in a very different way.

Sunday

23

November

2014

JOE

by CRISTIANO CELESTE

Italy, 2014, – 4’.30’’

Cast: Giorgia Palombi

She can’t sleep without Joe. The night is too long and empty, she looks for him, she wants him, the absence is more and more heavy, and a disquieting sense of emptiness and loneliness makes his way inside her. On the other hand there is no trace of Joe. He is vanished in thin air. There’s nothing left for her but to wait, to look for some trace, to hope that one day or another he will be back to bring her companionship.

Friday

21

November

2014

MALATEDDA

The cure for everything is salt water: the sweat, the tears, the sea. Adele’s insanity. The psychological distress is an area still in the making. Where does a simple diversity start, and where the simple disease? The movie comes from a medical record found in an abandoned asylum. It recorded that a patient was affected by an excess of happiness and fantasy.

Sunday

23

November

2014

MARGIE

An absurd and paradoxal situation occurs in the middle of the night. On the balcony of an old building of a big town, the unexpected meeting between a desperate and tired of living young woman and a blind old man. Two souls briefly compare while all around is silence. A funny misunderstanding will avoid the worst.

Saturday

22

November

2014

LA MASCHERA DEL FENOMENO

(The Phenomenon mask)

byDANIELE GRASSETTI

Italy, 2014, HD – 5’.34’’

Cast: Matteo Nicoletta, Lorenzo Colla

Are you ready to fall in love? Sometimes we need a mask to be able to see beyond what we are. Despair and genius are probably the less suitable ingredients to approach and appeal a girl. The Phenomenon, with a very odd mask will try, then, to look like a good boy.

Saturday

22

November

2014

MEGLIO SE STAI ZITTA

The Wedding day is arrived for Valery! There’s just to be aware of the bridemaids, all long time friends, but only apparently loving and nice and kind. Antonia, on the way to the wedding, recognizes the groom while passionately kissing a very appealing girl.

Sunday

23

November

2014

OFFICIUM

A small and apparently insignificant event: an exchange of words among four friends admiring the passage of a beautiful girl unleashes memories, desires, fears and perceptions to three observing women. Only in their dreams the three protagonists will express their deep needs and satisfy them.

Friday

21

November

2014

PANFILO

by MEMED AKSOY

Italy, 2014, 4K – 20’.00’’

Cast: Antonino Anzaldi, Pietro Faiella, Brando Chiostri

An apocalyptic tale of three generations of men. 1970: in a rural village in Tuscany Michele, a 9 years old child, is predicted the upcoming end of the world. He is warned by Panfilo, an imaginary friend. Michele’s grandfather will indulge the little boy’s fantasies; his father, instead, will strongly hinder them.

Sunday

23

November

2014

PIUME

Samuele’s job is to kill chickens. He is 30 years old and is the only Italian to work in that department of that big food company. And he hates the immigrants. But he desperately needs that job to sustain his son Elvis, a 6 years old child. When a young Senegalese colleague saves his life something inside him breaks.

Sunday

23

November

2014

POP ART

by ANGELO MOZZILLO

Italy, 2014, HD – 9’.24’’

Cast: Massimo Brusadin, Marco Rizzo

Arthur is an art dealer involved in an unhappy business with the organized crime. While waiting the movers for the dismantling of his gallery he is killed by two killers, Nick and Sal. When Sal goes and take the necessary to end the work, Nick, young and uneasy in his first day of underworld, is left alone on the crime scene.

Friday

21

November

2014

LA PORTA DEL DESTINO

A window on the odd world of love, the one born suddenly, while you are walking a road casually listening the voice in an interphone; a microcosm of characters of daily life that goes around the surprising will of the protagonist to give a shape to that voice.

Friday

21

November

2014

RECUIEM

When Leo and his little sister Annetta wake up that morning, their mother Emma is still sleeping in her bed. Or maybe not. Leo and Annetta spend the day all alone in the apartment: they have breakfast, they make noise, they play, wait, and test their life without their mother. Until their grandmother and Gabriele, Emma’s boyfriend, arrive.

Saturday

22

November

2014

THE THEFT

by MOHAMMAD FARAHANI

Iran, 2014, HD – 5’.00’’

Cast: Reyhane Salamat, Fateme Babaee

It’s night, in the desert streets a mother in tears holds tightly her newborn. It’s cold, and she is about to make a hard and painful choice, the one that can never be forgotten. Few minutes later another woman, much older, seems to have committed a theft. Or maybe not. More often in life things aren’t how they appear.

Friday

21

November

2014

THRILLER

by GIUSEPPE MARCO ALBANO

Italy, 2014, HD – 14’.00’’

Cast: Danilo Esposito, Anna Ferruzzo, Antonio Gerardi

With the background of a Taranto proven by pollution and uncertainty for the future, Michele, 14 years old, goes around lightly with a music pace, dancing as his idol Michael Jackson. When his father tells him that he can’t take him to the audition because of a mobilization in the factory, the world crashes on Michele.

Saturday

22

November

2014

VIVO E VENETO

(Alive and from Veneto)

by FRANCESCO BOVO e ALESSANDRO PITTONI

Italy, 2014, HD – 8’.00’’

Cast: Valerio Mazzucato, Moses “Salogo Ras” Kibuuka

The unusual attempt of a bicycle maker to teach his new African apprentice the art of small repairs. Using only the Venetian dialect. Among misunderstandings and ambiguities, both will discover that the language difficulties at the beginning are not an obstacle to the understanding, but a way to integration.